Lauren Fernandez
Optometrist · Fresno, CANPI 1609439454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,371 of the $3,389 with a category attached, or 70.0%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 41.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,080, more than ten times the $127 reported in 2020.
Across 36 payments — averaging $94.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$492
- Glaukos Corporation$294
- Coopervision Inc.$267
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$252
- Amgen$250
- plus $413 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01830%
- Food & beverage$2,37170%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 8 | $1,422 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 9 | $492 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $294 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $267 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $252 |
| Amgen | 2 | $250 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- TEPEZZA$250
- INFUSE$250
- iDoseTR$147
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$135
- MiSight Contact Lens$126
- Oxervate$122
- ALDEN SCLERAL ZENLENS$109
How this compares
$3,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other optometrist in Fresno
- Margarette RecaldeFresno$44K
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.